🧮 NSEC3 & CDS

Authenticated denial (NSEC vs NSEC3), RFC 9276 iteration compliance and automated key rollover (CDS/CDNSKEY) · all insights

Signed zones prove that a name does not exist with NSEC or NSEC3 records. RFC 9276 recommends NSEC3 with zero extra iterations and no salt; this page measures how many .dk zones follow that, which providers don't, and who publishes CDS/CDNSKEY for automated key rollovers. Data comes from our own scanners, which re-resolve every .dk domain in the zone roughly once a week.

Based on 93,807 domains probed so far (7.2% of the zone). A domain's probe is refreshed with every full scan, and otherwise roughly every 30–35 days, so while the first pass is still filling in the numbers can shift.

🧮 NSEC3 iterations

Of 62,743 signed zones probed whose denial of existence we could see (a signed wildcard zone answers every name, so it shows none), 35,827 (57.1%) use NSEC3, 25,452 (40.6%) use a classic NSEC chain, which lets anyone list every name in the zone, and 1,464 (2.3%) use compact denial (RFC 9824, Cloudflare's "black lies"), which can't be walked. RFC 9276 asks NSEC3 zones for 0 extra iterations and no salt: iterations cost resolvers CPU for no security gain. 17,340 NSEC3 zones (48.4%) still use iterations and 17,375 use a salt; 166 use opt-out.

IterationsZonesShare
018,489
51.6%
115,771
44.0%
51
0.0%
7841
2.3%
82
0.0%
10623
1.7%
121
0.0%
202
0.0%
212
0.0%
5097
0.3%

List the zones with iterations > 0 →

🏢 NSEC3 by DNS provider

ProviderNSEC3 zonesIterations > 0Salted
one.com16,4470.1%0.1%
dandomain.dk8,297100.0%100.0%
curanet.dk3,921100.0%100.0%
scannet2.dk1,694100.0%100.0%
hyp.net1,0040%0.0%
wannafind.dk631100.0%100.0%
sitnet.dk490100.0%100.0%
dnsserver.dk487100.0%100.0%
nordicway.dk39264.0%64.0%
e-studio.dk32898.5%98.5%
loopia.se2700%0.0%
123hotel.dk142100.0%100.0%
aveo.dk115100.0%100.0%
netgiganten.dk9998.0%98.0%
simpleagencygroup.dk78100.0%100.0%
gnrx.dk72100.0%100.0%
wixdns.net70100.0%100.0%
hostonline.dk69100.0%100.0%
dnsadmin.dk6185.2%100.0%
yayhosting.dk61100.0%100.0%
desec.io580%0.0%
azehosting.net5492.6%92.6%
eurodns.com510%0.0%
web-solutions.dk490%0.0%
deic.dk390%0.0%

🔄 CDS / CDNSKEY (automated DS updates)

CDS and CDNSKEY records let a DNS operator hand key rollovers to the registry automatically (RFC 7344/8078). 23,091 of the 66,297 signed zones we asked (34.8%) publish them; 51 publish the delete signal, asking the registry to remove their DS and turn DNSSEC off.

📋 Zones with NSEC3 iterations > 0

19,082 zones
DomainIterationsSalt
3p-coaching.dk11 bytes
3plaw.dk11 bytes
3pm.dk11 bytes
3sdm.dk11 bytes
3x34-fyn.dk11 bytes
4-stjernet-hotel-københavn.dk11 bytes
40144500.dk11 bytes
402.dk108 bytes
4040.dk11 bytes
416tatanka.dk11 bytes
417.dk11 bytes
42fish.dk11 bytes
42invest.dk11 bytes
43450203.dk11 bytes
43b.dk11 bytes
44536622.dk11 bytes
48261701.dk11 bytes
48a.dk78 bytes
4cc.dk11 bytes
4hoje.dk11 bytes
4love2learn.dk11 bytes
4nmanpower.dk11 bytes
4x4xpert.dk11 bytes
51run.dk11 bytes
53515151.dk11 bytes
5474.dk78 bytes
5958.dk78 bytes
5consulting.dk11 bytes
5daysdeo.dk11 bytes
5kreative.dk11 bytes
5star.dk11 bytes
5tips.dk78 bytes
60minutter.dk1012 bytes
6862.dk78 bytes
6aben.dk11 bytes
6livefter.dk11 bytes
6xo-ejendomme.dk11 bytes
70251517.dk11 bytes
70252518.dk11 bytes
70historiskegenstande.dk11 bytes
71997711.dk11 bytes
72425224.dk11 bytes
739.dk11 bytes
75820361.dk11 bytes
7777.dk11 bytes
80300.dk11 bytes
80er-bar.dk11 bytes
8230autoservice.dk11 bytes
86143234.dk11 bytes
8721-daugaard.dk11 bytes
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